Lesson plan 1 Verb Tenses: Past, Present, Future Fourth Grade

Why was Ibn Batuta famous?

Were Idrisi and Ibn Batuta real? Was Sinbad the Sailor real?




Answers given



1 India and China
3 They had triangular sails.
5 Metal
7 Southern Africa, India, China and Russia

2 Dhows
4 The first Arab map
6 In Spain
8 30 years
Put the following answers on the board.
Put students into groups of three. Appoint one secretary per group. Tell students they have to think of a question for each of the answers. Do the first two with them, eliciting the questions and writing them on the board. Give students plenty of time to think and discuss questions.
Answer key
1 Where did they go? India and China 2 What were their ships called?
Dhows

3 What did dhows look like? They had triangular sails.
4 What did Idrisi make? The first Arab map

5 What was the map made of? Metal 6 Where was Idrisi born? In Spain

7 Where did Ibn Batuta go? Southern Africa, India, China and Russia
8 How long did he travel for? 30 years

Post-reading
Resources
Worksheet 4.2a



Text analysis
Work in Arabic.
1 Organisation
Take the students through the text on worksheet 4.2a and elicit the following main points.

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  The first paragraph is a general introduction to the topic.
  
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  The following three paragraphs are about specific things and people, with specific facts.
  
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  The last paragraph gets the reader to personalise the information and relate the facts to a story they may have read.
  
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  The text can be illustrated easily.
  

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